[{"Course code":"P000077","Version":1,"English name":"Individual subject course in understanding and analysis of phytic acid","Higher education credits":10.0,"Syllabus":"Finalized by: Vicedekan FU, 2024-02-27","Valid from":"2024V","Syllabus approved":"2024-02-27","Level within study regulation":"Third cycle","Subject":[{"Subject":"Individual subject course"}],"Grading scale":"Pass \/ Failed","Language":"Swedish","Entry requirements":"Admitted as PhD or licentiate student at SLU","Objectives":"After the course the student should be able to\n\n\n- describe briefly the properties and functions of antinutritional compounds, particularly PA in plants.\n- explain principal pros and cons of the major PA analysis methods.\n- choose a suitable PA analysis method for his own project and analyze PA independently.","Content":"- Literature studies on PA in different plant species, but the focus will be on oilseed rape.\n- Literature study on published analytical methods for PA content in different plant species.\n- Practicing major analytical methods for PA content analysis in rapeseed using the published methods, if available.\n- Establishing a suitable method for rapeseed that can be used for analyzing PhD students’ own material as well as for the future research. (This will be confirmed by sending representative samples to commercial companies for such analysis, if available).\n- Analysis of PhD students own CRISPR-edited lines of rapeseed for PA content.","Examination formats":"Oral exam \r\n- If a student has failed an examination, the examiner has the right to issue supplementary assignments. This applies if it is possible and there are grounds to do so.\r\n\r\n- The examiner can provide an adapted assessment to students entitled to study support for students with disabilities following a decision by the university. Examiners may also issue an adapted examination or provide an alternative way for the students to take the exam.\r\n\r\n- If this syllabus is withdrawn, SLU may introduce transitional provisions for examining students admitted based on this syllabus and who have not yet passed the course.\r\n\r\n- For the assessment of an independent project (degree project), the examiner may also allow a student to add supplemental information after the deadline for submission. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.\r\n","Organisation":[{"code":"642","Organisation":"Department of Plant Breeding"}],"Other information":"\r\n- The right to participate in teaching and\/or supervision only applies for the course instance the student was admitted to and registered on.\r\n\r\n- If there are special reasons, students are entitled to participate in components with compulsory attendance when the course is given again. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.\r\n"}]